Strategic Marketing Planning Course

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Take your marketing skills to the next level by learning how to write a detailed and well thought through strategic marketing plan for your brand or business. Designed for existing marketers with some experience, this course will equip you with practical take-home tools to enable you to develop stand-out brand goals, write powerful marketing plans and measure your performance. You will review the latest Marketing trends and thinking and learn how to apply them to your own digital landscape.

Course Content

Strategic Planning Background

Why plan?

Brief review of Marketing, Branding & Differentiation

Developing your own Brand Essence – Exercise

Segmentation – identifying an attractive market gap

How to Write a Strategic Marketing Plan

Situation Analysis – Internal and External Reviews

Using Strategic Marketing Models for your business – Exercise

SWOT – theory and development for your business

Getting from SWOT to Objectives

Choosing the right Marketing Mix to meet your objectives

Developing Marketing Action Plans – Exercise

Timings, Budgets and Measurement of Success

Review the Latest Marketing Trends and Marketing Thinking

Digital and online developments

Big picture market changes

Consumer and market research

The New Digital Marketing World

Thought Leadership Marketing

Key success factors in the digital age including Social Media

Tips for getting your online presence humming

Course Delivery

Combined Lecture and interactive workshop.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will:

Develop and write a well-thought through strategic marketing plan for your business or organization, including both on and offline marketing

Review a wide range of marketing models and tools that facilitate better planning

Develop clear and business focused marketing objectives

Articulate a vision and goals for your brand or marketing responsibility

Be familiar with the latest marketing trends, both on and off line, and how they could apply to your own role or organisation

Think more strategically in a range of marketing scenarios

Suitable for

Marketers wanting to learn how to plan and write focused and effective marketing plans

Those who have already attended the Marketing Level 1 and Marketing Level 2 courses, completed an undergraduate Marketing course or have some experience working in a marketing role

Marketers from a range of environments, including product, services, business to business (B2B), government and not for profit

Marketers from a range of sizes from SMEs (small to medium enterprises) to corporates

Those with hands on marketing responsibilities, wanting to improve their theoretical knowledge, particularly around marketing planning.

Before the course

Please bring along the following if you are able to:

Your current marketing plan (or an old one)

Any sales or profit history – for your business/organisation, brand or by product.

Any other background information that could help you write your plan. E.g. market information, research, analysis of what has worked well for your business in the past

Features

Expert trainers

Central locations

Small class sizes

Free, expert advice

Student materials – yours to keep

Statement of completion

What others say.

I liked the interactive nature of the course. There is a good amount of time shared between theory and practical exercises.

Insightful and good conversations with the tutor and other class members. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

It was a very thorough course which covered all areas of marketing. The tutor was especially fantastic with the way in which the course was delivered.

$456LimitedGST free

Strategic Marketing Planning Course

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